Montana MontCAS Sample Questions

Copyright © 2006 Timothy Horrigan


For whatever reason, when I chose sample Measured Progress test questions to put on my web site, I chose a disproportionately large number from the 2003-2004 edition of Montana's MontCAS test. This is partially because Montana was one of the states I worked on, and partially because the Montana Office of Public Instruction provided especially nice PDF files of released open-ended test prompts, with sample answers.





Some general info on the MontCAS can be found below:

Montana Office of Public Instruction's official MontCAS website.


2003-2004: Released Items:

2004-2005: Released Items:


The specific sample questions I chose to wrote up were:



For more info on test scoring at Measured Progress see: